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Ethel Byrne (née Higgins; 1883–1955) was an American Progressive Era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work.
Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) foi uma feminista radical estadunidense. Ela era a irmã mais nova da ativista Margaret Sanger. As duas irmãs eram filhas de Michael Hennessey Higgins e Anne Higgins. [ 1]
24 de fev. de 2019 · Ethel Byrne, irmã de Margaret Sanger, atende mulher em clínica criada pela ativista. Naquela época, os contraceptivos eram um tabu. Aqueles que os vendiam foram classificados de fornecedores...
As historian Jill Lepore reports in The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Ethel Byrne was the first female political prisoner in the United States to be subjected to force feeding. Mrs. Byrne was prepared to starve herself to death in support of her cause.
6 de jan. de 2017 · Four years before women won the right to vote in the United States, Margaret Sanger — the future founder of Planned Parenthood — and her sister, Ethel Byrne, met a young Jewish immigrant named...
23 de jan. de 2020 · Learn about Ethel Byrne, who was imprisoned in 1917 for distributing contraceptive information at the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Read how she resisted jailhouse authorities with a hunger strike and became a feminist icon.
22 de jan. de 2015 · Ethel Byrne was convicted and sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse for working at the first birth control clinic in New York in 1917. She refused to do any work and went on a hunger strike in protest of the anti-birth-control law.
